NEW HAVEN, Conn. — No. 5 Yale improved to 4-0 on the season on Sunday with an impressive, 7-2 win against No. 9 Drexel at the Brady Center. This is the Elis' fifth win against Drexel in the past eight matches.
In their first match after a long winter hiatus, the Bulldogs proved that they have depth. The team's No.3 - No. 10 seeds all notched dominant victories, seven among them sweeping their opponents and the eighth winning in four games.
No. 7 Jed Burde, who secured the team's first victory of the afternoon, set the tone for the rest of the team with a strong 11-8, 11-6, 11-9 win against a tough opponent.
Next weekend, the Bulldogs travel to New York to face No. 7 Cornell on Saturday and No. 6 Columbia on Sunday.
1. Lucas Rousselet (DREXEL) def. Harrison Gill (YALE), 7-11, 11-5, 11-6, 14-12
2. Matias Knudsen (DREXEL) def. Nadav Raziel (YALE), 10-12, 11-6, 11-1, 11-5
3. Max Forster (YALE) def. Haris Qasim (DREXEL), 11-9, 11-4, 11-8
4. Siow Yee Xian (YALE) def. Fritiof Jacobsson (DREXEL), 11-8, 3-11, 11-8, 11-6
5. Maxwell Orr (YALE) def. Dylan Kachur (DREXEL), 11-9, 12-10, 11-8
6. Brian Leonard (YALE) def. Matthew Lucente (DREXEL), 11-7, 11-7, 11-7
7. Jed Burde (YALE) def. Noel Heaton (DREXEL), 11-8, 11-6, 11-9
8. Merritt Wurts (YALE) def. Jose Andres Lopez (DREXEL), 11-6, 11-6, 11-9. Eric Kim (YALE) def. Filip Krueger (DREXEL), 11-8, 11-7, 11-7
10. Nikhil Ismail (YALE) def. Gautam Nagpal (DREXEL), 11-5, 11-7, 11-8
